Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway lyrics

rate me

Funky Broadway 2:33 Trk 5

(Arlester 'Dyke' Christian)

Wilson Pickett

w/B. Miller - trumpet, C. Chalmers & J. Mitchell

Tenor Sax, F. Newman - baritone sax

S. Oldham - keybrds, C. Moman & J. Johnson - guitar

T. Cogbill - elc bass, R. Hawkins - drums.

Atlantic Single # 2430

Recorded: Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL.

Pop Chart #8 Aug 5, 1967

Album: The Very Best Of Wilson Pickett

Rhino Records #71212 1993

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Every town I go in

There's a street, uh! h'uh!

Name of the street, club

H'uh! Funky, *Funky Broadway

Down on Broadway, h'uh!

There's a nightclub, now, now

Name of the nightclub, now baby

Funky Funky Broadway

Down on Broadway, yeah

There's a crowd now h'uh!

Name of the crowd, baby

Broadway Crowd

Down on Broadway, yeah

There's a dance step, ha!

Name of the dance

Funky Funky Broadway

Hey! h'uh!

Wiggle your legs now, baby

Shake your head, now

Ooo, h'uh

Do the Shing-A-Ling now, baby

Shake, shake, shake, now

You don't know, how baby, hot

You don't know now, woman

Oow!

Do the Funky Broadway

HEY!

(Lord have mercy!)

(sax & instrumental)

Oh, you got me feelin' alright

Dirty, filthy, Broadway

Don't I like Broadway, h'uh!

That Broadway

Look-a-here!

Down on Broadway

There's a woman

Name of the woman, h'uh!

Broadway Woman

HEY!

FADES-

Down on Broadway-e-he, yeah!

There's a man, h'uh!

Name of the man, now, now, now, now.

*This Broadway Street referred to is in Phoenix, AZ

where Arlester 'Dyke' Christian (member of Dyke and

the Blazers) wrote the song while they performed

and lived here. It was first released in Phoenix

on the Artco label in 1966, charted #65 April 15, 1967

Top Pop being picked up (by the) LA Original Sound

Label single #64.

DOD 03/13/1971, Phoenix, Arizona

Broadway St. is still here, basically the same.

~

<br />

<br />

Thanks to anita

Get this song at:  amazon.com  sheetmusicplus.com

Share your thoughts

0 Comments found